(Q: "How you feel about the constant speculation about your virginity and whether you are a virgin or not?)

9. SOUNDBITE (English) Britney Spears: "I really wish I'd never of said anything to begin with because I'm kind of stuck in this little place where people are always asking me but that's just part of growing and that's just something we all have to deal with."

(Q: Have there been any changes on that front?)

SOUNDBITE (English) Britney Spears:

"That's a personal question."

APTN - Los Angeles, USA. January 2003.

10. Britney Spears and Colin Farrell

APTN - Los Angeles, USA. December 2002.

11. Fred Durst

Zomba Records

12. Clip video - 'I'm A Slave 4 U,' Britney Spears

BRITNEY WEDS CHILDHOOD PAL - AND SEEKS ANNULMENT

Pop star Britney Spears marched down the aisle in Las Vegas, marrying a childhood friend from Louisiana, according to news reports - but is already seeking to have the marriage annulled.

The 22-year-old diva married Jason Allen Alexander from Kentwood Louisiana early Saturday (3JAN03) at the Little White Wedding Chapel on the Strip, according to People.com.

But the marriage was a joke that went to far, says the website, and is in the process of being annulled.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported on its Web site that Spears, 22, and Alexander, 22, were granted a marriage license, citing an affidavit of Application for Marriage License filed Jan. 3.

Calls to Spears' representatives were not immediately returned.

The bride wore jeans and baseball cap, according to People.com, and had a hotel bellman walk her down the aisle.

People.com reported that Spears and Alexander journeyed to the Little White Wedding Chapel after a stop at the Ghostbar, a club in the Palms Casino Hotel. It reported that the chapel staff told the couple that they couldn't get married without a license, so they were reportedly taken by the limo to the Clark County Marriage Bureau office in the downtown Las Vegas courthouse.

They applied for and were granted the marriage license, then were driven back to the chapel, where they were married in the twenty four hour chapel that has also hosted the weddings of Joan Collins, Judy Garland, Dixie Chick Natalie Maines, and Bruce Willis and Demi Moore

Britney's love life has been the cause of much speculation ever since she declared she would remain a virgin until she married, a statement which fitted the 'girl-next-door' image she cultivated at the start of her career.

But in the middle of last year (2003) she admitted had sex with ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake after they had been going out for two years.

"I've only slept with one person my whole life," she told W magazine in July 2003. "I thought he was the one. But I was wrong."

After years of maintaining a squeaky clean image she then confessed that she was desperate for male company.

"I haven't had a boy in a really long time, and I'm really craving. Just a kiss, man. Just a kiss would be nice."

Spears, 21 , also told of her brief fling with Irish actor Colin Farrell. "Yes, I kissed him... He's the cutest, hottest thing in the world. He's such a bad boy. But it was nothing serious."

Spears released her fourth album "In the Zone" in November. It debuted at the top of the album charts despite poor reviews. She begins a concert tour March 2 2003 in San Diego.

(Q: "How you feel about the constant speculation about your virginity and whether you are a virgin or not?)

9. SOUNDBITE (English) Britney Spears: "I really wish I'd never of said anything to begin with because I'm kind of stuck in this little place where people are always asking me but that's just part of growing and that's just something we all have to deal with."

(Q: Have there been any changes on that front?)

SOUNDBITE (English) Britney Spears:

"That's a personal question."

APTN - Los Angeles, USA. January 2003.

10. Britney Spears and Colin Farrell

APTN - Los Angeles, USA. December 2002.

11. Fred Durst

Zomba Records

12. Clip video - 'I'm A Slave 4 U,' Britney Spears

BRITNEY WEDS CHILDHOOD PAL - AND SEEKS ANNULMENT

Pop star Britney Spears marched down the aisle in Las Vegas, marrying a childhood friend from Louisiana, according to news reports - but is already seeking to have the marriage annulled.

The 22-year-old diva married Jason Allen Alexander from Kentwood Louisiana early Saturday (3JAN03) at the Little White Wedding Chapel on the Strip, according to People.com.

But the marriage was a joke that went to far, says the website, and is in the process of being annulled.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported on its Web site that Spears, 22, and Alexander, 22, were granted a marriage license, citing an affidavit of Application for Marriage License filed Jan. 3.

Calls to Spears' representatives were not immediately returned.

The bride wore jeans and baseball cap, according to People.com, and had a hotel bellman walk her down the aisle.

People.com reported that Spears and Alexander journeyed to the Little White Wedding Chapel after a stop at the Ghostbar, a club in the Palms Casino Hotel. It reported that the chapel staff told the couple that they couldn't get married without a license, so they were reportedly taken by the limo to the Clark County Marriage Bureau office in the downtown Las Vegas courthouse.

They applied for and were granted the marriage license, then were driven back to the chapel, where they were married in the twenty four hour chapel that has also hosted the weddings of Joan Collins, Judy Garland, Dixie Chick Natalie Maines, and Bruce Willis and Demi Moore

Britney's love life has been the cause of much speculation ever since she declared she would remain a virgin until she married, a statement which fitted the 'girl-next-door' image she cultivated at the start of her career.

But in the middle of last year (2003) she admitted had sex with ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake after they had been going out for two years.

"I've only slept with one person my whole life," she told W magazine in July 2003. "I thought he was the one. But I was wrong."

After years of maintaining a squeaky clean image she then confessed that she was desperate for male company.

"I haven't had a boy in a really long time, and I'm really craving. Just a kiss, man. Just a kiss would be nice."

Spears, 21 , also told of her brief fling with Irish actor Colin Farrell. "Yes, I kissed him... He's the cutest, hottest thing in the world. He's such a bad boy. But it was nothing serious."

Spears released her fourth album "In the Zone" in November. It debuted at the top of the album charts despite poor reviews. She begins a concert tour March 2 2003 in San Diego.